Organ Recital

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Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, Pa., Jim Brinson and Mark King will perform an organ recital tonight at 7. Repertoire will include a duet for organ and carillon by Jean Sibelius, as well as works by Charles Ives, Claude Debussy, Robert Elmore, Herbert Howells and Joseph Rheinberger. Program is free and the public is invited to attend. For more information, call 301-733-2560, ext. 108. St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 18313 Lappans Road, Boonsboro, a spring yard sale is planned for today, beginning at 8 a.m. at the parish hall with profits going toward the Honduras mission trip that Andrea Perez and Leah Beachley will participate in this summer.

By KIMBERLY YAKOWSKI / Staff Writer photo: RIC DUGAN / staff photographer Mark B. King's earliest memories are of voices raised in song and the strains of the violin and piano. [cont. from front page ] It was through the influence of his musician parents and grandparents that he developed a love for organ music, and turned that love into a career. As the minister of music and the parish organist for St. John's Episcopal Church at 101 S. Prospect St., King performs regularly for a Hagerstown audience.

Hello! Parents, remember, there is a 2 1/2-hour-early dismissal Friday, and no school Jan 19 and 20. My phone is not working, so I'd like to apologize if you have tried to call me. I am trying to get it fixed, so please bear with me. Hagerstown Lions Club Tuesday - Jim Heins, a volunteer with C&O Canal National Historical Park, will be the guest speaker at the Hagerstown Lions Club to talk about "C&O: The Park Which...

The public is invited to a Castlewood Busker Organ recital in the Hess Room at Minnich Manor in the Quincy Village Retirement Community on Monday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. Presenter Al Good, a village resident, recently completed building a 20-note hand-cranked organ from a kit He had it shipped from Australia. It has interchangeable perforated paper music rolls similar to a player piano. He will share some of the organ's history, as well as some of the challenges has had to overcome while putting it together.

Battle of Hagerstown Tours of Hagerstown will be held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Hagerstown during the Civil War. The 90-minute tours are today at noon, 3 and 6 p.m. and cover about 1 1/2 miles. Meet in front of the Hagerstown-Washington County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Public Square, Hagerstown. Reservations suggested. Call 301-739-8577, ext. 139, or send an email to cw150@hagerstownmd.org and specify the time you wish to participate and the number in your group.

I would like to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving. It is a day to give thanks for our wonderful families, friends and all of the good things in our lives. Santa arrives at Long Meadow Boys and girls, it is that time of year again. Santa Claus is coming to town. He will arrive at the Ashley Furniture Store in Long Meadow Shopping Center Friday at 10 a.m. Lions Club bonus books The North Hagerstown Lions Club is selling Sheetz coupon books for $10 each.

Presbyterian Meeting House, Shepherdstown, W.Va., the congregation's homegrown talent will present music and poetry in A Recital for Peace, Saturday at 7 p.m. Free. The offering will be donated to support peacemaking initiatives, programs and projects supported by the Presbyterian Church, USA and Shenandoah Women's Center in Martinsburg, W.Va. Antietam Church of God, 4005 Harpers Ferry Road, Down Home Gospel Singers will sing at 9:30 a.m. this Sunday. Trinity Lutheran Church, North Potomac Street and Randolph Avenue, guest artist Julie Vidrick Evans will present an organ recital this Sunday at 4 p.m. Evans, who is organist at St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church in Bethesda, Md., will perform works of Dupre, Handel, Bach, Weaver, Shearing and Durufle on Trinity's four manual, 58 rank Schantz pipe organ.